382, Lot: 189. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates III. Circa 70/69-58/7 BC. AR Drachm (20mm, 3.69 g, 12h). Court mint at Nisa (?). Struck circa 68-62 BC. Diademed bust left / Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow; exergual lines of reverse legend oriented outward. Sellwood 36.15 var. (position of exergual lines in rev. legend); Sunrise –; Shore –; PDC 6356 = D. Sellwood, “The drachms of the Parthian Dark Age,” JRAS (1976) pl. 3, 70 (same obv. die). VF, toned, minor roughness. Very rare.